WITCHHAMMER
Anyone who stands up for heretics is considered a hectic himself!
In the 1600s, an overzealous clergy hauls innocent women in front of tribunals, forces them to confess to imaginary witchery, and engages in brutal torture and persecution of their subjects.
About This Film
A ruthless inquisitor spins the superstitions of local peasants into religious heresy, finding cause to accuse dozens of innocent men and women of witchcraft. The inquisitor targets nobles and merchants, whose property and goods are then confiscated. After suffering an array of medieval tortures, most of the accused confess—only to...
Film Details
Director
Otakar Vávra, Dagmar Štursová, Milan Klacek, I. Krkošková, Milan Jonáš
Writers
Otakar Vávra, Vladimír Bor, Ester Krumbachová, Václav Kaplický
Tags
Keywords
Witch
Based On Novel Or Book
Witch Burning
Torture Chamber
Witch Trial
Inquisitor
Female Frontal Nudity
Nudity
Czech Literature On Screen
Torture
Burned Alive
Burned At The Stake
Torture Rack
Middle Ages
Female Pubic Hair
Female Nudity
Female Full Frontal Nudity
Female Rear Nudity
Inquisition
Clothed Male Naked Female Scene
Forced Strip
Witchhunt
Central Europe
Literature On Screen
Also Known As
Witches' Hammer, Martillo para las brujas, Der Hexenhammer, Die Hexenjagd, Una vergine per l'inquisitore, Hexenhammer, Original title: Kladivo na carodejnice